by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 12, 2013 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
PLACEMENT BACKFIRED WHEN EMPLOYER FALSELY CLAIMED SHE HAD BEEN FIRED Unpaid internships may suck – but at least they increase your chances of getting a paid job, right? Don’t be so sure. A graduate has told Graduate Fog how an inaccurate reference from an...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 5, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
**GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE** The government’s new social mobility czar – hired by Nick Clegg – has recruited unpaid interns in the past, Graduate Fog can exclusively reveal. We know that the multimillionaire and former Dragons’ Den star James...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 31, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
WOW – ANOTHER JOB BOARD ANNOUNCES ‘ZERO TOLERANCE’ POLICY AGAINST DODGY EMPLOYERS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* A second major UK jobs website has announced that it will refuse to advertise unpaid internships that appear to break the minimum wage law....
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 29, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting
A QUARTER OF GRADUATES WOULD BE ‘TOO EMBARRASSED’ TO TELL FRIENDS IF THEY WENT TO WORK FOR A BANK The banking industry’s reputation is damaging its ability to recruit graduates, the boss of a major UK bank has said. The banking sector must...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 17, 2013 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
MONSTER SNAPS UP 500 COPIES OF OUR BOOK FOR GIVEAWAY PROMOTION **PRIZE DRAW AT 11.59pm ON 7 JUNE 2013** Monster.co.uk is giving away 500 copies of our book “How to get a graduate job in a recession”, as part of a pre-graduation giveaway. It even has a...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 15, 2013 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
AND THOSE WHO DO FIND WORK EARN 9% LESS THAN THEIR WHITE FRIENDS Black graduates are three times more likely to be unemployed than white graduates six months of finishing university, it has emerged. The worrying statistic was highlighted during this week’s BBC...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 14, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
POORER GRADUATES CAN NOW REPORT ADVERTS FOR UNPAID INTERNSHIPS AS GOVERNMENT FINALLY VOWS TO BACK YOUNG WORKERS Graduates who spot adverts for unpaid internships which appear to involve real work but pay less than the minimum wage can now report them to officials,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 7, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
NOW JUST 3% OF JUNIOR JOURNALISTS HAVE WORKING CLASS PARENTS The majority of young people entering journalism today are from middle class ‘professional’ families, in what is becoming an increasingly socially exclusive career, a new survey has found....
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 29, 2013 | graduate debt, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, Housing, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
CHILDLESS UNDER-35s STRUGGLE ON LESS THAN HALF OF WHAT THEY NEED The risk of young singles having less than 50% of the income required for an adequate standard of living has nearly doubled, a new study has shown. In recent years, the percentage of single under-35s...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 24, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
VICTORY FOR INTERNS AS FIRST RECRUITMENT SITE PLEDGES TO REMOVE ANY ADVERTS FOR EXPLOITATIVE ROLES *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* **Like this? Please Share and RT!** Monster.co.uk has become the first major UK recruitment website to pledge publicly that it will not support...
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